Oriental despotism : a comparative study of total power - Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896-1988. (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1957)
1. The natural setting of hydraulic society -- 2. Hydraulic economy - a managerial and genuinely political economy -- 3. A state stronger than society -- 4. Despotic power - total and not benevolent -- 5. Total terror - total submission - total loneliness -- 6. The core, the margin, and the submargin of hydraulic societies -- 7. Patterns of proprietory complexity in hydraulic society -- 8. Classes in hydraulic society -- 9. The rise and fall of the theory of the Asiatic mode of production -- 10. Oriental society in transition.
Includes bibliography (p. 491-529) and index (p. 531-549).
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Keywords: Despotism; Civilization, Oriental; Irrigation